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An attorney for Chatham County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Adam Hall has waived an aggravated child molestation charge to Superior Court and asked a judge to reconsider bond for the defendant.

Hall, 52, remains in the Chatham County jail where he has been since his arrest at his Wilmington Island home on Dec. 20 on a charge of aggravated child molestation of a male, now 17, that allegedly occurred in April/May 2008. The victim was 12 at the time.

He had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing Thursday.

On Wednesday, his attorney, Steven Beauvais, waived the charge to Superior Court, removing the need for the hearing. The case will now go before the grand jury for indictment at an undetermined date.

Beauvais said Thursday that his bond petition for Hall is scheduled for a Feb. 18 hearing before Superior Court Judge Timothy R. Walmsley.

Walmsley denied a bond request on Dec. 27, citing “a lot of moving parts in play” in the case, but left open the possibility that he would reconsider the bond at a later date is evidence merited it.

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After he gives city council their raise and increases their travel expenses to an all time high, OC Welch is going to clean these child molesters out of Savannah and clean up the sex scandals at the police department.

I guess the next time we see OC Welch at city hall to be rewarded a contract it will be the one where the city buys all their vehicles from OC Welch Ford in South Carolina. That will be a nice little tax boost for South Carolina courtesy of Savannah tax payers.